Lamentations 2:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

Young's Literal Translation
To their mothers they say, ‘Where [are] corn and wine?’ In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

King James Bible
They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

Hebrew
They cry out
יֹֽאמְר֔וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to their mothers:
לְאִמֹּתָם֙ (lə·’im·mō·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 517: A mother, )

“Where
אַיֵּ֖ה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's 346: Where?

is the grain
דָּגָ֣ן (dā·ḡān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1715: Corn, grain (of cereals)

and wine?”
וָיָ֑יִן (wā·yā·yin)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication

as they faint
בְּהִֽתְעַטְּפָ֤ם (bə·hiṯ·‘aṭ·ṭə·p̄ām)
Preposition-b | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5848: To shroud, clothe, to languish

like the wounded
כֶּֽחָלָל֙ (ke·ḥā·lāl)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2491: Pierced, polluted

in the streets
בִּרְחֹב֣וֹת (bir·ḥō·ḇō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7339: A broad open place, plaza

of the city,
עִ֔יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

as their lives
נַפְשָׁ֔ם (nap̄·šām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

fade away
בְּהִשְׁתַּפֵּ֣ךְ (bə·hiš·tap·pêḵ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out

in
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the arms
חֵ֖יק (ḥêq)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2436: The bosom

of their mothers.
אִמֹּתָֽם׃ (’im·mō·ṯām)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 517: A mother, )

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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